IBM uses light for ultra-fast computing in AI systems
European research team has found a way to use light instead of electricity to power AI processors.
IBM researchers have developed a way to dramatically reduce latency in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems by using light, instead of electricity, to create ultra-fast computing.
The IBM team, ...
Apple’s electric car may take until 2027 to reach production
Apple is working on a self-driving car program for a while now. New developments show that the program may take 5-7 years to deliver a functional vehicle.
People close to the project provided this new insight and noted that the car is very far away from the production stage. Last year we reporte...
Intel introduces face-recognition tech into RealSense
Intel announced on Wednesday that it is adding face-recognition hardware and software that retail stores can use to enable payments and dictate access to restricted areas. The tech was introduced in 2014, in Intel’s RealSense 3D cameras.
Combining depth and tracking technology, drones, robots,...
Google scientists told to portray AI only in a positive light
The company has created additional rounds of review to police the tone of their employees' publications
Reuters reports that Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review. In at least three cases, the company requested author...
Study says execs believe AI and automation skills are a “must have”
Survey shows that most senior executives want even non-technical employees to have automation and AI skills.
A recent study from UiPath showed that senior executives are increasingly requiring employees to have automation and artificial intelligence (AI) skills.
UIPath, an enterprise Robotic...
AWS unveils RedShift ML to make machine learning more accessible
Amazon's VP of machine learning, Swami Sivasubramanian, offered a keynote on machine learning during the second week of Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference.
During the keynote, Sivasubramanian announced that SageMaker, the company's middleware platform for machine learning, will go forward...
ServiceNow to acquire Canadian startup Element AI
The acquisition will help ServiceNow to deliver AI services to enterprises.
ServiceNow this week announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Element AI, a Canadian startup. The young company has already become a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company with deep AI capabilities, accordin...
IBM is cutting 10,000 employees from its European services unit
IBM plans to cut 10,000 jobs from its European services unit to minimize costs before they spin off the division in 2021, according to Bloomberg report released today. The job cuts will affect about 20% of IBM staff in the region, with offices in the U.K. and Germany facing the biggest cuts. Office...
Salesforce Einstein makes 80 billion predictions daily
Einstein, Salesforce's AI platform, is now used to make more than 80 billion predictions every day. This is over ten times as much as it dit one year ago.
Einstein is the name Salesforce uses for its AI services. After it was launched in September 2016, its use has grown rapidly to 6.5 billion d...
Study finds that an AI’s machine language still lacks common sense
"Two dogs are throwing Frisbees at each other" sounds good to the AI, but not to us.
Despite advances in natural language processing, an AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, according to a new study.
A team of computer scientists from the University of South...
Workday adds ML, predictive forecasting to its ERP suite
Updated Workday Accounting Center will add new levels of visibility and control.
Workday this week announced the availability of Workday Accounting Center and machine learning (ML)-driven predictive forecasts for Workday Adaptive Planning.
The company also unveiled additional functionality ac...
Intel Geospatial delivers data and analytic applications to industry
Introducing a Cloud Geovisual Data Management Platform Featuring Multi-Source 3D Data and AI-Powered Analytics
This week Intel launched its Intel Geospatial offering. The platform provides access to a wide range of high-quality 2D and 3D geospatial data and analytic applications through Intel's ...